How can I split a JavaScript string by white space or comma?

Question

If I try

\"my, tags are, in here\".split(\" ,\")

I get the following

[ \'my, tags are, in here\' ]

Wherea

Answer 1

input.split(/\s*[\s,]\s*/)

… \s* matches zero or more white space characters (not just spaces, but also tabs and newlines).

... [\s,] matches one white space character or one comma

If you want to avoid blank elements from input like "foo,bar,,foobar", this will do the trick:

input.split(/(\s*,?\s*)+/)

The + matches one or more of the preceding character or group.

Edit:

Added ?after comma which matches zero or one comma.

Edit 2:

Turns out edit 1 was a mistake. Fixed it. Now there has to be at least one comma or one space for the expression to find a match.